Aloha, and welcome back! It would be an understatement to say that lots of things have changed ever since our last update on the Wiki. The world is going through a pandemic, and on top of that, we are facing a political and financial crisis. It’s not looking great for this year so far, so first and foremost, we hope that you’re all safe and well! 

On the bright side, summer is finally upon us! This is the time to take a break, enjoy the weather and go back to normal, even if it is just for a moment (mind you, social distancing is still in place, of course!). If you’ve had the chance to check out Mineplex recently, you might have noticed that as a minigame server, it has been a big winner of the coronavirus outbreak, with their player count more than doubling! 

Keeping that in mind, we obviously want to keep the Wiki tidy and clean for the increased amounts of visitors. There have been plenty of cool changes we want to share with you today, plus there’s so many more to come later this year. So why not grab yourself a nice drink, a comfy spot and dive right in, hm?

Remarkable contributions

Over the past few months, many dedicated editors of the wiki have spent lots of time ensuring that the wiki stays a reputable source of knowledge for the server. In this section of the newsletter, we would like to focus on some of the users that have made a tremendous impact on both the reputability and overall appearance of the wiki. 

Our first spotlight this time is on Sncwie. With 30 edits since joining the wiki in March 2020, Sncwie is very dedicated to keeping the wiki a valid source of knowledge for all and puts a lot of time and effort into editing different articles, whether it be ranks, games, or even more!

Next, we’d also like to thank BlueandGreen! He is an ex-wiki staff member who has put a tremendous amount of effort into the wiki in all aspects. More recently, he’s made somewhat of a return and now spends lots of time ensuring that the wiki is up to date, clean, and reputable. 

One final shoutout goes to someone who has been working very hard over the past few months to keep the Wiki updated and accurate: TheBlueComet481! A current builder for the Mineplex network, he is constantly editing many different articles whether about the build team or just Mineplex in general. Showing his interest in- and outside of the Wiki, he is definitely deserving of the Featured User award. Congrats!

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

Feedback from polls

In the last newsletter, we asked a few different questions about various topics and aspects of the wiki to see how we could improve them. We are going to have a look through each one of them and the feedback it received here!

Mobile Readability

Judging from the poll results, it appears that most of you do not often use your mobile to browse through the wiki. 75% of you said that mobile readability could be worth a fix in some articles around the place, but it shouldn’t be a major concern. This is also backed up by the wiki statistics administrators have access to, which suggest that about ⅔ of our user base uses a desktop. Thus, while we are definitely going to take it into account while creating new articles in the future, it is very unlikely that we are going to go through all the older articles to improve them for mobile users, unless they are extremely messy. 

Newsletters

Overall, 2 people would be happy to see the newsletters carry on, 5 think that the time spent on them could be spent on something more useful and announcements for major changes would be enough, and 1 person does not read them or care about them. From our perspective, except for polls, newsletters don’t get that much engagement. They are also quite a bit of a challenge for us to release in time or release at all as we are all rather busy, and do not have that much time to dedicate anymore. Hence, while we are not quite sure what is gonna happen to them yet, this might be the last one for a while since we are considering to put newsletters on hold temporarily. However, we expect things to change around the wiki in the future and its relation with the server, which signifies that there is a possibility they will return if there is a demand and more people around!

Rules

This one is straightforward. 100% of the votes said that the current community policy and rules were fine. Unless something major is brought up, we will most likely not change or add any rules in the near future.

Bedrock Content

2 people were focusing more on Bedrock articles, whereas 5 did not think it should be our main focus at the moment. Currently, we do have some articles about Bedrock games and features, but the issue is that most of the active editors actively play Java. Thus, we cannot really document stuff we are not entirely familiar with. In the future, if we get the Mineplex community to engage more with our platform then perhaps we could encourage more Bedrock articles to be written, but it is not our biggest priority as it currently stands. We have yet to finish all the server subteams and Java Nano Games pages, which we think is more important before starting a wider expansion.

Visualizations

This was about the layout of the pages and whether they had too much images / we should focus more on text. While this did not get a lot of votes, it appears that most people do not care or think it is currently fine as it is. Therefore, in the future we will most likely keep on writing articles the same way as we do nowadays, but we will keep in mind that too much images can cause loading issues, especially on low-end devices.

Usage of the wiki

We were quite surprised to see that most of you use the wiki to look up information about older, or previous games, features and updates! The content which is the most interesting to you guys is both general information on broader topics (hackers, GWEN, reports) and factual information, statistics and analytics (kit stats and game balance). We will thus try to make sure that the relevant articles are always up to date and available. 

Design Choices

For the theme, 1 reader wants light, 2 readers want dark and 1 reader does not mind. We did experiment with a black theme in the past during seasonal events (Halloween), and people seemed to have enjoyed it. While it is not a priority at the moment, we will consider reintroducing a black theme for a longer period of time to see whether it is an improvement or not. 

As for the general article layout and design, everyone voted for having professional-looking, Wikipedia-like articles without flashy colours or fancy fonts. This is great news as we believe this is already the case for most of our articles at the moment, so not too much change is required. However we invite you to debate on any change you think would be necessary in the #wiki-discussion channel of our discord.

Thank you very much for giving your input and feedback, this is really helpful in order to stay on the right track and focus on stuff which actually matters to the wiki users and reflects what they want!

New staff member !

Even though we had SophOG resign from her administrator position at the beginning of the year, we are delighted to announce that Saltyfishhy will be joining the wiki staff team as a content moderator! Here is a few words from him:

Heyo! I’m Saltyfishhy, and I’ve been a member of the Mineplex community for about 6 years now. I’ve always been interested in contributing to the community and the network itself, and more recently I’ve discovered the Mineplex Wiki! As a little bit about myself, my favorite game on Mineplex is probably Speed Builders, and as a close second I’d have to say Super Smash Mobs. These days you’ll likely see me chilling in lobby one, however.

This is great news for us as we are always willing to see the wiki team and active users grow, as not only does it positively impact the quality of the content available, but it also allows us to realise more of our plans and projects for 2020! Speaking of...

Going Forward

Aside from several internal updates and additions, there haven’t been many content updates visible to regular readers. This is about to change though: Our schedule for 2020 is packed with exciting projects! Today, we’ll just name some of them which will be our main focus during the next months.

The mysterious CoM project?

If you’ve taken a look at our public project overview before, you might have noticed that one card has remained untouched for over a year now. But has it really? Today I’m happy to confirm that what might be our biggest collaboration to date is still in the making, and we’re now working on it at full steam. We will keep you updated on its progress over the course of the next few months. Stay tuned!

Discord server overhaul

Our Wiki Discord server is far from optimized, and we heavily rely on the use of third-party bots to make features like the Wiki integration and moderation possible. Even though it will only be a side project, we are planning to develop and implement our own bot to make more features possible, which also comes with an improved experience for all of our server members. We are considering to add features like:

• Wiki ↔ Discord account linking
• An upgraded report system for Vandalism/malicious edits on the Wiki
• An enhanced verification system for Mineplex Staff & GI members

We’re still in the planning phases, so if you have any other suggestions, let us know!

Unified Community Platform

The UCP is a major upcoming change, affecting all FANDOM & Gamepedia Wikis in the near future. It will come with a massively updated editor, improved mobile device support, and much more! To prepare for this, we will be undergoing some changes sooner or later. We’re not quite ready for the move towards the new platform just yet, simply because some features (like the forums this newsletter is being posted in) are not fully functional on the new platform, but we will make way for it soon. Read more about it here!

Upcoming content

Welp, that’s a lot to look forward to! If you want to give feedback on our current projects, feel free to check out our public trello board.

Content-wise, we wanted to do something special based on the poll results this time. Seeing that you guys are primarily interested in removed games, and UHC has been frequently requested to make a return in the Mineplex community, we decided to focus on our Ultra Hardcore page throughout the next weeks! UHC has actually been a featured article before, but we felt that it could still use some improvement in terms of content and layout. Be sure to help out and start editing the page if you have anything to share about UHC, be it factual information, screenshots, clips or anything of the like. 

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

Thanks, and stay safe!

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2 months later, and we are back! Although it may seem like we skipped a newsletter, it is intentional. We have decided that it would be better if we released a newsletter every other month, thus covering 2 months in one newsletter. Anyway, let’s jump straight into it! 

Remarkable contributions

The past months have been quite busy in terms of edits! We’ve seen a few new member joining us, as well as older ones who suddenly went on a streak of edits. It’s nice to see that your trick-or-treating hasn’t impacted the involvement on the platform!

• MachoPiggies went through a great amount of pages, improving, fixing and updating them! The amount of work done was so impressive, it would not have made sense to not award him one of the 2 User of the Month titles! Congrats! 

• Vanessa1375 went around editing a few pages, which include Classics Cow, Streams Team or even Content Creator Council!

• BlueandGreen also contributed in a more technical way by targeting cosmetics pages as well as improving some templates.

• DCPlaysMC edited the Power Play Club page.

• Heckingss mainly focused on working on various teams and subteams pages, such as Rules Committee and Quality Assurance Testing to only name a few. We thought his numerous contributions were quite pertinent, hence he will be able to enjoy the 2nd ‘User of the Month’ tag given along with this newsletter. Congrats!

• Xukuri, THELichCA and Surved edited a bunch of miscellaneous pages.

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

During Halloween, you probably noticed that your eyes have been treated with a dark and spooky theme! As this period is heavily celebrated on Mineplex - especially through the 2019 Halloween Event which included the return of Halloween Havoc - we had no reason to pretend nothing was going on around here. Although we received a lot of positive feedback on the general aspect of the wiki, the colour being pretty much inverted led to some displaying issues around some templates… Sorry about that! Anyway, did you enjoy that theme? What do you think should have been improved? What would you like to see if something similar was done to celebrate Christmas? Please make sure to vote on the poll below and let us aware of any ideas you may have through the comments!

Over the last weeks, BlueandGreen overhauled some of the cosmetics pages, which sparked a discussion about their layout on our discord server. Not only is there some information we’d like to add to the main tables (the rarity of cosmetics, for instance), but the large galleries of some pages have proven to be highly inconvenient for our mobile readers, too. To combat this, we’re considering to move all animated images to a dedicated subpage. This would allow us to improve the general design of the galleries (such as by sorting and categorizing the GIFs), as well as speeding up the load times of the main pages and lowering data usage. What do you think about this?

Another small change is the recent addition of the Wikia Bot to our discord server! Our little helper is connected to the Wiki, and provides some interesting statistics on the page, and many more useful commands. Use !wikia help for a quick overview of all features.

Finally, here’s the results of our Halloween giveaway! Our 3 winners are:

• AceSJus

• Jaekub

• killer10

Congrats to you all! Be sure to message Mining on Discord to claim your prize. If you haven’t won anything this time, don’t worry! We might do another giveaway in the future.

Upcoming content

For our next featured minigame, we wanted to do something special: We’ve chosen a Bedrock game. The article for Dragons wasn’t even created yet, but that is about to change. If you’re a bedrock player, feel free to contribute to the page, because there’s obviously a lot missing.

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

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Welcome back! It’s been a while since the last newsletter was released, and while we tried our hardest to work on an issue for you last month, our holiday vacations took up most of our time. No worries though, we’re back with even more this time: double the content, double the fun.

Remarkable contributions

We are very happy to see so many dedicated editors on the Wiki, and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to show you our appreciation! Here’s some of the users with the most outstanding work in the last months – July and August:

• Vanessa1375 removed tons of small mistakes she came across. Thanks!

• Welcome DanielW231! As one of the newest editors, he already made lots of changes.

• Even after earning themselves the User of the Month tag last time, Musmak continued to improve various articles. Thank you!
• With tons of new images added, we’d like to give a special thanks to YeeterFamGang.Great job, and congrats on becoming our User of the Month for your efforts in July!
• After his long absence, BlueandGreen has racked up hundreds of edits in almost no time, with one of his main projects being the Mineplex Discord article, which has now more than doubled in size. Great to see you back, and with no surprise – the User of the Month tag for August goes to you!

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

Over the last months, we’ve made plans to rework the staff verification system. Until now, we had a large range of tags which users could choose to receive, including Quality Assurance, Event Assistance and others. With this update, we’ve narrowed it down to Mineplex Staff and Game Insights tags, to accurately highlight the users who have extensive knowledge of the server. Along with that, we’ve also renamed the “Verified Mineplex Staff” tag to just “Mineplex Staff” – it was a bit redundant, wasn’t it? Last but not least, we now have a Discord verification in place as well, so if you’re either Mineplex staff or GI, don’t hesitate to contact us to have your tags applied to your account!

Staff pages have repeatedly shown to be a huge issue, and we’ve finally decided to remove all staff pages (excluding Admin+). We have already prepared an archive for the retired staff member articles, which means none of the information in the articles is lost. We thank each and everyone of you for your efforts on these pages, but please understand that we have grossly underestimated the work connected to keeping them updated. Feel free to take a look at Mineplex Wiki:Archive to see the removed pages. Needless to say, there are no plans to remove any other pages at the moment.

If you’ve paid close attention to the edit logs, you might have noticed that we deleted a seemingly harmless article about Staff Commands. Don’t worry, none of us went rogue! :) We have actually been asked by a Mineplex administrator to take down the page because it contained confidential information. To elaborate a bit more, they requested that we should not specify the commands which are in use by staff only. In the future, we will try to rework the article so that it does not violate Mineplex’s staff policy, as we would like to maintain a good relationship with the server. Thanks for understanding!

Upcoming content

Our next featured game will be Super Smash Mobs Domination! Being one of the longest standing games on the network, the article could certainly use a cosmetic makeover. Feel free to help us update the page.

That’s it for today! If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

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School’s finally over! So how did everyone’s exams go? 

We’re in a bright mood for the July Newsletter today! With Mineplex’s player-count increasing a lot in the recent times, we have seen a great amount of activity around the wiki lately! Let’s jump straight into it, shall we?

Remarkable contributions

First off, we’d like to give a big shoutout to Musmak, who made over 100+ edits in barely 2 weeks! With Musmak’s many improvements on various articles, be it grammar fixes and formatting changes, they’ve easily earned themselves the User of the Month tag for sure. Thanks a lot!

BaconAnEggs continued working on his recently started project – the staff pages. We’d also like to thank you for your continued efforts!

As our newest member of the Wiki staff team, SophOG was very active in June and has improved a number of pages. Be sure to give her a warm welcome, if you haven’t already! :)

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

We have lots of great news today, so we’d like to begin with the most important announcement: we have a new Administrator candidate, SophOG! As always, we allow our community to vote before making a final decision on the application. If you want to have your opinion count, leave your thoughts here!

In the last month we realised how hard it was to juggle between all the different projects we have for the wiki. With the aim to organise all these tasks in a better way, we decided to create a public Trello board! At last, we are now able to overlook everything at a glance while knowing some idea or project will not get lost on the way. It also provides a greater transparency and community interaction between us and the wiki community, as it is now possible for anyone to check out what we are up to.
But wait – there’s more! You’re also able to comment on all cards to share your ideas with us. This means we can always collect your feedback on all projects. We hope you’re just as excited for our Trello board launch as we are!

We also have a small update regarding Discord moderation. Recently, we have witnessed a few trolls around our discord at times where we weren’t able to moderate. Coincidentally, we’ve had a staff role which remained largely unused for years: the Chat Moderator position. From now on, this role is not only responsible for moderating the wiki chat module, but also our Discord server. The main tasks are enforcing the chat rules and making sure to maintain a suitable and welcoming environment for all users on both platforms.

Along with that, we’ve decided to overhaul the Wiki staff application requirements, to reflect more accurately what we’re expecting from our applicants. Be sure to take a look here, and if you have any remaining questions, feel free to let us know! 

In addition to that, we also made the application form itself more clear and added a few more questions. One thing to be sure, with a mature attitude and a clean punishment history, you’re more than ready to give the application a try. So what are you waiting for? We’d be excited to welcome you on board! :) 

Upcoming content

As a result from last month’s poll, it became clear that we’d have to remove all articles of former staff members. This project is definitely one of our current priorities, so the archival process should begin soon(TM).

Now, a little word about the translations project! It’s still fresh in our minds, we have worked on it a lot lately! Recently, the Rules Committee of Mineplex decided to remake the main rules document. This meant that we had to rework a lot of what we had previously started, thus resulting in further delays. Once again we would like to apologise to everyone, especially our fellow TT people! We are coming close to publicly launch it though, so stay tuned for that! 

Aside from that, we know we haven’t had the time to work on our featured games recently. We hope to make up for that with a new project coming soon! Although we’re not going to ruin the surprise yet, we might be welcoming a lot of new editors in the near future. We’re thrilled for this long-awaited change, and hope to share more with you in the next months.

And that’s all for today, folks. If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

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Good day ladies and gentlemen, we have a new request for adminship!

As always, it is up to you to decide the outcome of the application, but before that, let me introduce our candidate.

This time, our applicant is SophOG! You might have already seen her on the Mineplex forums and on the MP Discord, or perhaps you know her from the Game Insights team. As a former Moderator, she has an extensive knowledge of Mineplex, and continues to actively help the server as community member to this date.

Joining the Wiki back in April, she has been editing a great variety of articles, and she is often seen participating in discussions on our Discord server. With such outstanding activity, she was interested in joining the staff team as a Chat Moderator about a month ago. And now, Sophie is hoping to continue her staff journey at the Mineplex Wiki by becoming an Administrator.

Please consider to read her application before voting here.

As per usual, the community plays an important role in the whole application process: All of you are welcome to comment the request and ask questions directly to the candidate. Feel free to share your opinion and take part in the poll below. Please keep in mind to be respectful, and stay on topic. 

A promotion requires a clear consensus. The poll will also be taken into account, although the comments will be prioritized when making a final decision.

All other recent changes are covered in our Newsletter, which will be published later today – promise!

UPDATE: Just released the NL – be sure to give it a read over here!

Until next time, and enjoy the rest of your holidays! :)

Ahh… Sun’s shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight...

Summer is going strong with over 30° celsius (that’s 86° fahrenheit for my American fellows) already! The school year is drawing to a close, and everyone’s in a holiday mood. Do you guys have anything special planned for this summer? :)

Guess what, we do! In fact, we have a lot of projects waiting for release. Here’s our monthly overview about all changes in May and our upcoming plans.

Remarkable contributions

• NeoEnderman2016 worked on the Speed Builders and Shocking Strikes (Ability) pages in May! Thanks :)

• Another shoutout to Timmi6790 and Wattywatty14, who were reverting vandalism and contributing to the Clans page respectively.

• Big thank you to DCPlaysMC for improving the Gadgets page! He has been very actively editing the page for several weeks already, so the User of the Month tag is definitely well deserved!

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

In regards to last month’s vote which was held in order to decide whether Nicodami would be promoted to bureaucrat, I am pleased to announce that he will be joining me on that position! The vote was very favorable, with only one opposition and one neutral to one supporting and seven strongly supporting editors! If you are interested in checking it out, the poll is available here. This is great news as since we’re both very busy, we can share our duties and make sure the wiki keeps running smoothly for you all to enjoy!

Regarding the staff pages, a small majority (around 60%) voted to keep the pages of the current staff members. Only 40% of you were interested in removing every staff page, while moving the content to other pages. In accordance to the poll results, we’ll be archiving the articles of former staff members soon, and monitor the remaining staff pages. We’re still considering to remove them all, should we not be able to keep the rest of the staff pages updated.

We also have a small update regarding the TT project! Unfortunately, due to both of us being rather busy, it has stalled a bit recently. We had several possibilities on how to handle it, and we were unsure which one to chose, so we opened up a discussion on fandom’s community help wiki. In the end, we decided we will go with the solution we originally planned on doing, because it will be the most convenient, even though it’s not the most efficient. Fortunately, this means we already have most of it set up, we just need to test it and it should be all good to go! Nonetheless we still wanted to apologise for the delay, it was really unexpected on our end, and was also worsened by all the exams we had to go through lately! 

For our fellow translators reading this: as soon as we’re ready, we’ll notify you on the TT discord! 

Upcoming Content

This month’s featured game is the crazy Weekend Brawl! Dozens of game variations are still missing, so we’ll be trying to add them. If you’ve been playing Weekend Brawls yourself, feel free to help out. :)

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you want to share other thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

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Phew, there’s so much to talk about this month that we didn’t even have time to come up with a good pun for our title. They’ll be back next time. Sorry guys.

Remarkable Contributions

• DCPlaysMC edited various cosmetics pages, and added his own images to improve the galleries! Thanks!

• Just like the other, User:Wattywatty14 joined us only a few weeks ago, but made lots of changes already. Nice job!

• A big thank you to SophOG, who did not only work on several articles, but was also very actively engaged in discussion regarding the staff pages. Looks like we found our User of the Month for May! :) 

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

The recently introduced Staff pages (example) caused a lot of controversy. We’ve received quite a few valid complaints, questioning their adequacy and their value of contribution to the Wiki. To centralize the discussion in one thread, we prepared an announcement which includes a poll with all the options which are currently available for us. We’d love to hear your feedback on the matter so we can make sure our final decision is the best choice for everyone!

After a long wait from our end, we’ve finally decided to launch a brand new project! Maybe some of you noticed already that Mineplex doesn’t offer any sort of translations of the rules anywhere, even if the entire bedrock platform is translated. Thus, we decided to host translations for them on our platform! These will made by volunteers within the Translations Teams members, including both of us. We’re really proud to start such a project as it is a big step towards helping the international community around Mineplex. In the future, if it all works out well we might also start translating Mineplex's FAQs and other useful information! However, you might not want to expect a translation of the entire Wiki as, sadly, that would require a lot more active contributors from all around the globe. 

Feel free to suggest anything you think would be useful to improve this project! 

We have a small update about the progression of discussions with Mineplex leadership team. The Community Management team is interested in working together with us to improve the Wiki. The details are yet to be discussed though, and the project is put on hold while major changes are being made to the Game Insights team. We’ll hopefully have more updates for you soon.

Finally, we have a rather special announcement for today. On a personal note, I’m very excited for this, because of my struggle to meet the activity requirements of my leadership position recently.

Nicodami requested the rank of bureaucrat. As you know, he has been an administrator for a few months now, and he still plays an active role around the wiki with several edits on a weekly basis. Here’s a short introduction by Nicolas himself:

Hey! For those of you who don’t know me, I have been around the Mineplex community for a while now, as I joined in 2014. To this day, I am a part of Mineplex’s ideas and translations team, and mainly play Block Hunt on the network. I have been on the wiki since over a year ago, and have over a thousand of edits here, making me one of the biggest contributors to this wiki. Recently, I’ve been working on making the new translations project possible!

His entire application can be seen here. Remember that your vote matters, so be sure to leave your thoughts in the announcement thread here. 

Upcoming content

We’ll be back with the June newsletter in exactly two weeks from now, where we will announce the results of the staff pages polls, the progress of the Translations project, and the outcome of Nicodami’s application. Stay tuned!

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you just want to share your thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

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Heya! Long time no talk (at least in this section) – how’s it going everyone?

Most of the recent changes are covered in our newsletters, but today we have two quite important topics to discuss, which deserve their own thread, as well as polls. 

Staff pages

The recently introduced Staff pages (example) caused a lot of controversy. We’ve received quite a few valid complaints, questioning their adequacy and their value of contribution to the Wiki, up to the point where we are considering to delete all staff pages (below Admin). 

Right now, we have an exclusive page for every single (current) staff member, from Trainee to Owner, as well as several articles about retired staff members. 

Here’s a short summary about the problems the staff pages are causing:

• The topic of the pages – staff members – does not contribute to the Mineplex Wiki as an encyclopedia. This site was originally meant for minigames and other in-game features, and not players with a shiny tag.

• Having a page for each staff member is not only impractical, but also inconvenient to monitor and difficult to keep up to date. We can’t assure the quality of over 270 pages that cover constantly changing topics (staff members resigning, joining new sub-teams etc.).

• Some of the pages’ content may appear as subjective, or simply not notable or useful.

The poll below includes all the options which are currently available for us. We’d love to hear your feedback on the matter so we can make sure our final decision is the best choice for everyone.

We would very much appreciate if you could not only choose an option in the poll, but also leave a comment explaining your choice. Thank you!

Request for bureaucratship

That’s right! Nicodami is ready to take on the duties of a bureaucrat. He joined the staff team some months ago, and has since been very dedicated to making the Wiki as great as possible! Behind the scenes, he is actively working together with others to coordinate new projects, such as the Wiki forums guide, the Translations project, and more! His entire application can be seen here. 

As per usual, the community plays an important role in the whole application process: All of you are welcome to comment the request and ask questions directly to the candidate. Feel free to share your opinion and take part in the poll below. Please keep in mind to be respectful, and stay on topic. 

A promotion requires a clear consensus. The poll will also be taken into account, although the comments will be prioritized when making a final decision.

That’s it for today! Let me know if you have any other questions. Oh, and for my fellow stressed out students – good luck with your exams!

Bonjour!

Despite our April fools plan not to release a newsletter this month, we’ve decided it would still be a good idea to keep you up to date with what has been going on recently, especially because we had HUGE changes last month.

Maybe you were simply overwhelmed by all the new pages and edits? So were we. Let’s quickly recap what has changed.

Remarkable contributions

What do I even begin… BaconAnEggs registered some days ago, but made over 800 edits in under a week already, immediately climbing the leaderboard to secure the 5th place. All staff pages, which were planned to be done over the course of this year have been now finished in a few days. With such a truly outstanding start, I look forward to more of Bacon’s contributions in other projects, too. Great job!

Nicodami continued working on the History pages, making substantial changes to the 2018 and 2019 changelogs. Thank you!

One more shoutout to Timmi6790, who has also recently joined us, as well as MarzieK, for making several QoL changes to various articles. Appreciated! :)

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

With the recent addition of hundreds of new pages, we have also hit an all-time record of over 2000 (!) edits in March. Our WAM, a score from 0-100 which reflects our activity level, skyrocketed from 18 to 50 last month, bringing us back to the top 1000 most active gaming wikis for a few days. Personally, I’ve had rather pessimistic expectations for the wiki this year, but I was clearly proven wrong. Thank you all <3

With all the new staff pages, updating articles like the list of all trainees, mods, recruiters etc. is easier than ever before! Simply assign the respective categories to a staff member’s page, and the lists will update automatically. As an example, adding the “Event Squad members” category to the Block2Block page will eventually add him to the Event Squad page. Simple as that! Feel free to expand the staff articles if you can, as most of them are stubs right now.

The staff articles also attracted – believe it or not – 3 new staff members to the wiki! A warm welcome to all of you, we’re glad you’ve decided to join us.

Finally, in case you missed it, here’s another plug for the Discord server we just launched! Be sure to join on the right side of the page, or alternatively by clicking here. See you there!

Upcoming content

We’ve got all staff pages covered now, but guess what, there’s much more on the list! As long as we can update the staff pages every so often, we can start focusing on other projects such as:

• Games

• Cosmetics

• Kits

• Abilities

• Maps

• Wiki Design/Layout

• History pages

Let us know in the replies which one you think deserves the most attention.

Besides that, our next featured game of the month is Super Spleef. Being only an arcade game, updating it should be a short and crisp task.

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you just want to share your thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

Thanks!